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Shedding further light on disparities in, and the impact of discrimination on, kidney disease rates and care was the focus of a Kidney Week 2017 session titled “Context Is King: Neighborhood and Social Networks as a Risk Factor for Chronic Disease.”

The prevalence of diabetes is rapidly increasing and is projected to affect more than 400 million people by 2030 worldwide. Diabetic nephropathy remains the most serious microvascular complication and most frequent cause of end stage renal disease in the United States.